Oversight of the Broadband Stimulus Programs in the American Recovery and Reinvestment ACT: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ...an ingenious man. He placed upright pullies in the carriage with nicks to carry six or eight spindles, the rim-band passing over a pulley upon the vertical shaft, so placed as to give motion to them. This was soon extended to a cylinder, or drum as it is now called (first made in wood, then in tin), to embrace 24 to 30 spindles, the This was done by arranging the card slivers and slivers belonging to the drawing frame so as to form the fibres of the wool into parallel lines. The renowned Bishop Blaize of Gennany gave the idea of laying fibrous woolly substances in a. parallel direction by inventing the wool-comb. Tradition says, that he was torn to pieces by his own implement--a sacrifice to the prejudices of the vulgar. 1-By a person at Manchester of the name of Stockport, who received a premium for the ingenuity he thus displayed, which was voted to him by the jenny spinners. wharves being put on like the strings of a harp to embrace the whole breadth of the drum. By this means the carriage was soon extended to a much greater length, and the better construction of the rollers and their fixtures on the beam facilitated the enlargement of the whole machine. The greatest improvement was the giving motion to the rollers by a diagonal shaft from the rim to the rollers, which dropped out of gear at the rim when the rollers were to stop. This was also a contrivance of Baker s.' By this time, 1786, there was a great variety of methods for measuring the number of revolutions of the front rollers, in order to give out the required length before the stretching commenced. James Hargreaves of Toddington contrived the first method of bringing out the carriage, by a very ingenious invention. It consisted of a parallel scroll, with a small...